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1.1(of feelings or behaviour) contrary to what is seen as normal, conventional, or acceptable.

‘wanting to help other people is not unnatural’

‘A strange, unnatural feeling is beginning to develop among long-term observers of English football: optimism.’

‘My characters always have lots of aunties, one of whom my hero always has unnatural feelings for, or very natural feelings for.’

‘If wherever she was going was full of such… unnatural feelings… she wasn't sure how she would fare through it.’

‘Neither one of us are religious in the slightest, so the sole reason for my attendance at this time seems to be the annual egg hunt that for people in their fifties my parents take unnatural glee in.’

‘Indeed, if Madonna were a fictional character, one could only retain public sympathy for her by having her ‘pay the price’ for her unnatural behaviour.’

‘Such an unnatural feeling was more than he could bear.’

‘For such a female, there can be no understanding, and the contrast between the wife's unnatural behaviour and the husband's heroic behaviour is specially stressed.’

‘Larry has an unnatural fear of sharks and the word ‘shark’ makes him go completely mental.’

‘Indeed, for him or her, heterosexual behaviour is unnatural.’

‘Alcohol induces unnatural feelings and makes people act out of character; it's very easy to find oneself in a frightening situation.’

‘Gone are the days when crimplene flares were modelled by vacuous looking male models with an unnatural penchant for Aran knit cardigans and neck ties.’

‘With an unnatural longing, Deirdre wanted a water feature.’

‘Donnelly complains that Play School is battling ‘to normalise what many parents would consider unnatural behaviour’.’

‘Like his mother, he has an unnatural fear of water.’

‘I've developed an unnatural interest in Comic Relief does Fame Academy.’

‘I wanted to tell the lady in Cairo that she was exaggerating her dress, that it was unnatural and abnormal.’

‘During the last few months, I'd had visions of him running away, scared and shamed by my unnatural passion.’

‘Kirstie could only gape, caught between outrage and an unnatural desire to laugh.’